Browser: form submit encoding

Yes this is true W3C says that "multipart/form-data" should be used in combination with the INPUT element, type="file".

Thanks for the report, I will see what I can do,

btw what kind of server application is not able to decode mutlipart/form-data form ?

Daniel Borca wrote:

> HttpServletRequest.getParameterNames() returns an empty Enumeration.
> To parse what FunkLoad sends, it needs a specialized multipart parser.

Below is a patch for Funkload 1.5 to submit posts as x-www-form-urlencoded instead of multipart/form-data

--- PatchWebunit.py     2006-01-27 09:37:42.000000000 +0000
+++ PatchWebunit.py     2006-05-24 18:17:30.000000000 +0000
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 import time
 import urlparse
 import httplib
+import urllib
 import cStringIO
 from webunit import cookie
 from webunit.utility import mimeEncode, boundary
@@ -180,18 +181,27 @@
 
     params = None
     if postdata:
-        for field, value in postdata.items():
-            if type(value) == type({}):
-                postdata[field] = []
-                for k, selected in value.items():
-                    if selected: postdata[field].append(k)
-
-        # Do a post with the data file
-        params = mimeEncode(postdata)
-        h.putrequest('POST', url)
-        h.putheader('Content-type', 'multipart/form-data; boundary=%s'%
-            boundary)
+##         for field, value in postdata.items():
+##             if type(value) == type({}):
+##                 postdata[field] = []
+##                 for k, selected in value.items():
+##                     if selected: postdata[field].append(k)
+
+##         # Do a post with the data file
+##         params = mimeEncode(postdata)
+##         h.putrequest('POST', url)
+##         h.putheader('Content-type', 'multipart/form-data; boundary=%s'%
+##             boundary)
+##         h.putheader('Content-length', str(len(params)))
+        newpost = {}
+        for field,value in postdata.items():
+            newpost[field]=value
+            
+        params = urllib.urlencode(newpost)
+        h.putrequest('POST',url)
+        h.putheader('Content-type','application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
         h.putheader('Content-length', str(len(params)))
+        
     else:
         # Normal GET
         h.putrequest('GET', url)

fixed in changeset [51242].